One Play Wonders|Epic Week Mar 4 – 10 (Ep 276)

To celebrate the birthdays of Joe Carter and Aaron Boone, Tom and Nick dish about “One Play Wonders,” or athletes you remember for that one special moment including Bucky Dent, Mike Eruzione (1980 Miracle on Ice), David Tyree, and Buster Douglas. Which famous play is your favorite? In a new segment, your two Bengals fan hosts play “Rate These Steelers”: Franco Harris, Lynn Swann, Rod Woodson, Hines Ward. Who’s catch was more impressive, Swanny or Franco? Tune in for another episode of the Epic Week podcast covering Sports Birthdays and Anniversaries from March 4th to 10th including Knute Rockne, Draymond Green, Kevin Johnson, Kyle Schwarber, Wally Szczerbiak, Michael Irvin, The Late Willie Stargell, Jake Arrieta, Shaquille O’Neal, Greg Ostertag, Ivan Lendl, Jeff Kent, Kenny Smith, Brian Bosworth, Chuck Norris, Zach LaVine and more!

Show Notes:

0:00-1:23 Intro: Welcome to Epic Week by Bacon Sports. I’m recently tanned Tom Pellegrino along with my podcast tag-team partner and pepper pickler Nick Schwietering. Epic Week looks at the sports Birthdays and Anniversaries for a week in sports. This week, we are talking about March 4th through 10th.

24:23-25:09 Also Receiving Votes: Michael Jordan comes to bat for the first time in a Chicago White Sox uniform, playing in a spring training game as an outfielder. Would play 17 spring training games, and got sent to AA Birmingham. 3 HR’s, 30 SB’s, BA 202.

25:10-26:00 Outro: That’s all for the show today. Please check out Bacon Sports on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @BaconSports. Be sure to subscribe to this podcast and rate us (preferably a Nomar Garciaparra number of stars 5). Follow me on Twitter @BaconSportsTom and Nick @SweetsCincy. If you like this podcast, share it with your sports fan friends, and tell them it’s awesome. If you hate this podcast, share it with your sports fan friends, so they can laugh at how bad it is! It is also Timbaland’s birthday this week so we are sending you out to The Way I Are! For Nick Schwietering, I’m Tom Pellegrino, make it an Epic Week.

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